Never underestimate the power of trauma and adversity

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Our vision is to assist in recovery from trauma and adversity and, through recovery and leadership development, to encourage contribution to the wellbeing of others in the community.

Whether you are young, older, a professional or just want to understand how trauma impacts, there are services and information which can help you.

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What We do

We assist people to recover from trauma and through their development, inspiration and leadership development, to promote development and recovery of other people with similar experiences.

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When people are given the opportunity to work, in a very safe space with a small group of others, they develop the capacity to transform extremely challenging experiences into strengths.

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Some conversations are too big for friends and family to take on alone. Connect with us and discover that you don't need to deal with trauma alone.

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Whether you contribute once or on a recurring basis, we thank you for helping us empower more Australians who suffer from the legacy of trauma: mental health issues, substance abuse, violence against themselves or others and sexual assault.

Programs

Leading from Within provides two programs: [1] 60 hour small group program which assists in trauma recovery and provides people with the skills and knowledge to mentor others. [2] 10-16 hour parenting program.

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Whether you contribute once or on a recurring basis, we thank you for helping us empower more young Australians.

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Whether you contribute once or on a recurring basis, we thank you for helping us empower more young Australians.

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Leading From Within (Greater Shepparton) Inc.2 months ago

First of all - Happy New Year to all of you who have been involved or supported Leading from Within!

We wish you a safe, enjoyable year.

Look out for information about the Launch of the Evaluation of Leading from Within. We are hoping to do this in late February.

This will be an important event in the life of Leading from Within and we will look forward to your support.

Membership - It’s only $10 per year

Leading from Within relies on Membership payments for our official status as a ‘not-for-profit’ organisation, as well as for financial support.

In 2017 Professor Lisa Bourke and Dr. Andrew Hamilton from The University of Melbourne, Department of Rural Health, conducted an Evaluation of Leading from Within. They have validated the efficacy of the program and encourage it’s continuation.

If you will become a member you will receive a copy of their Summary report.

Please consider becoming or renewing your membership to help the organisation to do its very important work assisting trauma recovery and building community resilience.

Details are on the website: www.leadingfromwithin.org.au or contact Pat and Jenny O’Connell on 58211295

Your support means a lot.

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At times of trauma or serious adversity people often ask the big questions – What is life all about? Why am I here? What’s important to me? and so on. The stated aim of the organization is “to assist in recovery from trauma and adversity and, through recovery and leadership development, to enc...

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Leading From Within (Greater Shepparton) Inc.2 months ago

Jenny, Patrick and the committee of LFW would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a safe and happy New Year.

As you may know we have been going through an evaluation of the program which we can say has been hugely successful and there are big things on the horizon for LFW. We are hoping to announce a launch for the release of the evaluation and its outcomes for late February. Stay tuned!

We look forward to connecting again in 2018.

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Leading From Within (Greater Shepparton) Inc.Leading From Within (Greater Shepparton) Inc. shared Rotary Mooroopna's post.4 months ago

Great supporters of our community, Rotary Mooroopna have been raffling a car on New Years Eve for the last 35+ years and investing the money back into community projects.This year there's a PD Hyundai i30 Active up for grabs - and for the first time in its history you can buy your ticket online!

Tickets: https://rafflelink.com.au/rcm3629

$2 a ticket and the money goes back into making our community a better place to live in!